
Long-Term Antibiotic Use Not As Successful In Managing Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is usually treated with a 2-3 weeks course of antibiotics. Long-term antibiotic use in Lyme disease, which still presents with symptoms, is not recommended as this will not improve the scenario.

Type 2 Diabetes - Living With And Managing This Common Chronic Condition
There is unfortunately no cure for Type 2 diabetes but it can be managed by balancing diet with any prescribed medication and increased physical activity. This helps to lead a healthy lifestyle and reduce the risk of dealing with complications.

Laryngitis symptoms and treatment
Laryngitis is a nasty inflammation of the larynx the voice box which results in a sore throat and often a hoarse voice or the total loss of your voice for a while.

Cost of Whole Genome Sequencing Falls Drastically for Some Cancer Patients
American health insurance companies have begun to cover the cost of DNA testing for choosing the best cancer treatments, although they mostly limit coverage to the patients who will benefit from it least.

New Treatments for Diabetic Eye Diseases
About 85 percent of diabetics, even type 2 diabetics, eventually develop retinopathy, maculopathy, cataracts, or glaucoma, and sometimes all four. Fortunately, new treatments are making saving sight easier.

Low Cholesterol Levels May Signal the Beginning of Colon Cancer
A large part of the medical profession is head over heels in love with cholesterol-lowering statins. At least in terms of managing risk for colon cancer, statins are not necessarily a good thing.

Human Hairballs - Do They Really Exist??
For some of these people, they also develop trichophagia, where they then eat the hair they have pulled out. As well as patches of baldness, those with this syndrome develop a trichobezoar, which is a hairball that lodges in the stomach.

Fatty Liver Disease: New Understanding of a Major Cause of Diabetic Complications
Fatty liver disease, also known as nonalcoholic hepatosteatosis, is a disease one-quarter of the entire population of the earth has but very few people have ever heard of. It is a major reason for liver transplantation and cause of heart to heart disease.

Does HDL Cholesterol Protect Against Heart Diseases As Effectively As It Is Thought?
A recent study has put a big question mark on the efficacy of HDL cholesterol in the prevention of heart diseases since it shows that some genetic mutations increase HDL cholesterol levels but increase the risk of heart diseases instead of reducing it.

The “Holy Grail” Of Cancer Research Discovered
Cancer research has achieved yet another milestone with the development of “smart packages” that are based on nanotechnology and help treat cancers more efficiently. These packages specifically target the cancer cells and kill them.